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liis legs) have become cold, circulation therein should be 

 restored by the groom quietly rubbing them with a 

 cloth; and as soon as they are dry, and the animal 

 what is called " comfortable," a pailful of warm gruel 

 given to him at intervals, a bran masli, a rackful of hay, 

 a clean stall, some chilled water, and a fresh bed, will do 

 all that is possible to procure for him a night's rest, 

 free from fever ; and this vital object having been 

 accomplished, the next day he may receive without 

 injury, and indeed with great benefit, his usual allow 

 ance of the best oats and beans. 



Now, in contrast to the mode of treatment just de- 

 scribed, we will endeavour to offer to our readers *a 

 similar sketch of that which, especially by what are 

 termed "fast men" (possibly because " lucus a non 

 lucendo" they make it a rule never to "fast^' or abstain 

 from any thing they desire to do), is usually adopted. 



After the run is over, while one sturdy hound that all 

 the rest seem to be afraid of is stealing straight away 

 with the poor fox's head, and while ' another at his 

 utmost speed, chased by several, is meandering through 

 the pack with a lump of unsavoury, very dirty fur in 

 his mouth, groups of riders, some sitting astride, some 

 like pretty ladies with a right leg hanging over the 

 saddle's pommel, some with cambric handkerchiefs mop- 

 ping moist heads and red faces, and some adjusting 



